On December 6, 2012, Vice President and Co-Founder Dr. Joan LaRovere spoke at the Menopause, Andropause and Anti-Aging Congress in Vienna, Austria. Her talk, “Matching Resource with Need: Data Mapping to Understand Maternal Mortality and Women’s Health,” centered on our collaborative work with the University of Vienna Medical Center in Tumu, Ghana.
As part of our Data Mapping for Sustainable Development, we continue to partner with Women in the World to map organizations working on women’s issues globally. This year, we are expanding to include maps on the state of women in the world and comparative maps on gender-based violence trends, including state responses to combat the…
A team of dentists and dental assistants led by Dr. Shane Nazeri and Dr. Michael Reshad traveled to Caluco, El Salvador to provide critical dental care and educational opportunities to local professionals on the ground. In collaboration with FUSADES and the local Mayor’s office of Caluco, the team was able to treat more than 40…
Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana, in partnership with the Office of the Honorable Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School, renewed scholarships for promising young women lawyers chosen to clerk for the Supreme Court of Ghana. Enam Antonio…
Lawyers Without Borders implemented its fifth annual Kenyan Trial Advocacy Program in Nairobi, Kenya. The training team, sponsored by the Virtue Foundation, trained 14 trainers and 82 participant lawyers and judges from 8 cities in Kenya on trial skills and on issues of violence against women and corruption. Specifically, the program’s objectives were to increase…
Women News Network recently posted an article on the issue of acid violence and other forms of violence against women in Bangladesh. In it, the author cites to the Virtue Foundation and partners’ report, Combating Acid Violence in Bangladesh, India and Cambodia. Read the article: http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/07/11/bangladesh-advocacy-acid-crime/
In May 2012, a team of 24 volunteer surgeons, residents, nurses, medical students and support staff joined Virtue Foundation’s Director of International Programming and Global Health Dr. Ebby Elahi and Co-Founder and Vice President Dr. Joan LaRovere to perform free, essential surgical care and to train local surgeons toward sustainable advancements in surgical healthcare delivery…
Get on the Map! is an innovative new interactive mapping initiative that lets non-profits, governments, corporations and individuals access, analyze and visualize rich stores of data to better design their interventions. It aims to centralize national, district-level and local data, as well as Virtue Foundation indices in its core competences of health, education, empowerment and justice.
Virtue Foundation offers legal writing and research skills training workshop for Ghanaian Supreme Court law clerks. On June 7, 2012, Ghana’s Supreme Court law clerks attended a Virtue Foundation online legal writing and research workshop. The three female clerks met with Virtue Foundation volunteer legal experts to discuss legal writing style and research tips as…
Today, Ghana’s Supreme Court clerks learned many of the finer points of writing and research from legal experts at a Virtue Foundation online workshop. The clerks met with Virtue Foundation volunteers and staff to discuss legal writing style and research tips as part of an ongoing research paper project. All participants considered the session a…